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1 Thin underlayerView answer 5 Comment often made with an eye rollView answer 9 African capital whose name translates to "ants"View answer 14 Derby, e.g.View answer 16 Commit a library tabooView answer 17 Ship-to-ship communicationView answer 18 LacksView answer 19 Parent whose child is taking steps to improve?View answer 20 Backbiter?View answer 21 Puts in a protected placeView answer 23 They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythologyView answer 24 Cries of disappointmentView answer 25 Components of some brick buildingsView answer 28 It might be living on the edgeView answer 31 Showing tough love, sayView answer 32 Mash at a luauView answer 33 "Please avoid brutal honesty!"View answer 35 WiseView answer 37 Certain drug classification, in briefView answer 38 Ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian WarView answer 40 FathersView answer 41 Two-humperView answer 43 Period that begins on July 23View answer 44 It's not an optionView answer 45 Zest sourceView answer 50 Brown alternativeView answer 51 Enterprise enterpriseView answer 52 WWE star Randy ___View answer 54 Part of a high-tech security systemView answer 55 "Lift ___ Voice and Sing" (protest anthem)View answer 56 They go from season to seasonView answer 57 ShortView answer 58 Hibernation stationsView answer 59 Seven ___View answerDown
1 Contempt, in slangView answer 2 Actress with a dual role in 1998's "The Parent Trap"View answer 3 Tends to some pressing mattersView answer 4 PunkView answer 5 The first Musketeer, alphabeticallyView answer 6 Kept hidden, as informationView answer 7 Product for winter sidewalk safetyView answer 8 "Mean Girls" writerView answer 9 Firewood choice, or its destinyView answer 10 Rubs the wrong wayView answer 11 Alternative to a cribView answer 12 Classic rock?View answer 13 Paratha flourView answer 15 Digital file?View answer 22 Runs slowlyView answer 23 Kind of contest with multiple chances to participateView answer 26 [This makes me mad!]View answer 27 Is on the bottom?View answer 28 One who's slow to pick things upView answer 29 What an insensitive joke might doView answer 30 Locale for many community courtsView answer 31 "Love Story" author ErichView answer 34 Diagnostic tool, in briefView answer 36 Natural history museum collectionView answer 39 Simplest possible phone planView answer 42 Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, among othersView answer 43 Solo sortsView answer 46 Particle accelerator byproductView answer 47 Statement that might follow a hugView answer 48 ___ Lines (ancient Peruvian geoglyphs)View answer 49 BandageView answer 50 Burns, e.g.View answer 53 What comes before 1/1View answer 54 Drug discussed in Aldous Huxley's "Heaven and Hell"View answerYour puzzle stays a surprise. Answers appear only on the individual clue pages.
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